Pastoral Resources

The only legitimate artists in England are the architects.

My point is there's a hidden Scotland in anyone who speaks the Northern Ireland speech. It's a terrific complicating factor, not just in Northern Ireland, but Ireland generally.

The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine.

At home in Ireland, there's a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure.

It has always been difficult to get Big Bird to be very pretty. Big Bird in England is much more gorgeous.

If anything, there's a difference in working with color in England and the color in the US.

In England, it's thought to be morally suspect to worry about what your surroundings look like.

Without the shepherd's dog, the whole of the open mountainous land in Scotland would not be worth a sixpence.

When the problems in Northern Ireland started, it was not a question of Protestantism or Catholicism, because the Catholic church was the only church at that time-it was a nationalist conflict.

Finland had a civil war less than 100 years ago, just like in Ireland. If you look at the history of newly independent nations, civil war is almost every time present, even in the United States.

They'll always be an England, even if it's in Hollywood.

My mother's background was Scottish. She came from an old family, some of whom lived in upper New York State and some of whom had come over from Scotland.

Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.

The basic policy of the British Government was that since the majority of people in Northern Ireland wished to remain in the United Kingdom, that was that. We asked what would happen if the majority wanted something else, if the majority wanted to see Irish unity.

They believed that Britain was in Ireland defending their own interests, therefore the Irish had the right to use violence to put them out. My argument was that that type of thinking was out of date.

People were so keen to get investment. In those days, there was quite significant unemployment in Northern Ireland, and that had been the general pattern in Northern Ireland for many, many years.

I grew up in Derry, of course, and it was - Derry was the worst example of Northern Ireland's discrimination.

In coming to that agreement, my party had a clear philosophy throughout. In Northern Ireland, we should have institutions that respected the differences of the people and that gave no victory to either side.

Land, in England, is valuable, because we have highly-paid artisans to consume the produce on the spot.

Fortunately for England, all her imports are raw materials.